Columns

Becker Underwood reports "business as usual" during acquisition

September 24, 2012 By
There was a lot of talk last week about BASF’s announcement of its plans to acquire Becker Underwood for $1.02 billion (see previous post). But one thing I didn’t see was any word from Becker Underwood on what was the ...

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BASF to acquire Becker Underwood for $1.02 billion

September 20, 2012 By
More big news in our industry — big to the tune of $1.02 BILLION! BASF to acquire Becker Underwood, this news just hit my inbox at 8:03 a.m. EST… the entire press release is below. We’ll get on the phone ...

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Northwest Oregon? Yes, please.

September 19, 2012 By
I was looking for some information on my upcoming travels and was very excited to see this: http://www.ogcsa.org/Pages/events-sign-up/environ-mtg.html Yes, Northwest Oregon, I’m coming to see you, Tuesday, Nov. 13th! The “Seth on Tour” trip continues, this time at Oregon Golf ...

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Reader feedback — professional courtesy

September 14, 2012 By
Got a nice email from a reader regarding Mark Woodward’s most recent column (which you can read here.) Here’s the note: Mark nailed it, RE: Professional Courtesy. It only take a moment to make an impression. I remember visiting a ...

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New video!

September 12, 2012 By
As you probably noticed, I haven’t been doing many videos since Golfdom was acquired by North Coast Media. That’s just because we’ve had to change over a lot of our technical… stuff. Stuff I don’t even pretend to understand! But ...

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New Sports Illustrated cover

September 10, 2012 By
It was interesting to see last week’s Sports Illustrated cover. It has former Bears QB and golf nut Jim McMahon on the cover. I met McMahon about five years ago at a celebrity golf event, back when I was writing ...

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